According to the mayor of Roda de Berà, a seaside resort between Barcelona and Tarragona (Catalonia), the child may have been on a refugee boat that capsized in the Mediterranean Sea.
A macabre discovery was made this Tuesday morning on the beach of Roda de Beràbathing resort of Costa Dauradabetween Barcelona and Tarragona (Catalonia). Around 8 a.m. the body of a child was discovered lying in the sand. The area has been cordoned off. Police forces (Mossos d’Esquadra and Guardia Civil) were dispatched to the scene.
Investigators currently do not know the circumstances surrounding this tragedy, nor the identity of the little boy. Nevertheless, our colleagues from El Caso claim that the body was that of a two-year-old child. That it was discovered in one advanced state of decomposition. And that he would miss some parts. Therefore, the investigators assume that he could have spent a long time in the water. Which the forensics will uncover thanks to the autopsy.
The child’s body was found without a head
According to a witness cited by El Caso, the body had been lying on the beach since the day before, but no one had approached it, mistaking it for a doll.
According to the mayor of Roda de Berà, it could have been the child on a refugee boat that capsized in the Mediterranean. “That’s one of the hypotheses that’s on the table,” Pere Virgili explained to RAC1 radio. “The child wears a kind of bodysuit, a garment that is not typical of a child who goes to the beach,” said the chosen one on the radio of our Catalan colleagues. The aedile also states that the body found is that of vona child between the ages of three and four who is missing his head.